En l'isle de Gersui fui nez, a Chaem fui petiz portez, iloques fui a letres mis.
“I was born on the Isle of Jersey; as a small child I was carried to Caen, and there I was put to my letters.”
Wace's autobiographical account of his own upbringing, the earliest first-person record of a Jersey childhood.
— Wace, Jersey
Source: Wace, Roman de Rou (composed c. 1160-1174)
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